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VOLUME ONE, NUMBER 2 SPRING 1975

SOME GIFTS TO THE STATE MUSEUM April. The formal portions .of the prowam were held As a result of the first newsletter issued by the at Litchfield Beach with s1xty-one registrants and a Museum Commission, a number of agencies and in­ large number of guests attending. The group was the dividuals throughout the State have responded by largest to assemble for a meeting in the brief history offering gifts intended for exhibition or other appro­ of the Federation. priate use in the State Museum. Sectional meetings dealinq with Art, History and A number of these first responses have come Science took place in the afternoon followed by a from city and state agencies. Mo~t . nota~le ~re th<;>se qeneral session featuring a talk "The Role of a Stat~ from the General Services Adm1n1strat1on mvolvmg Federation of Museums" by William J. Moore, Presi­ portions of furniture and fittin.gs from the South Caro­ dent of the North Carolina Association of Museums. lina State House. Tours and receptions took place at nearby Brook­ The City of Columbia, through its Public Utilities qreen Gardens, Hopsewee Plantation, Pr.ince George, Department, has offered remarkable remains. of .the Winyah, Episcopal Church and. the R1ce Muse~m. Town Clock of Columbia, an instrument of h1stoncal Saturday's luncheon in the Pnnce Ge_orge. Pansh significance which has survived two fires in the Town House was provided by Trustees and fnends of the Hall and which has been in storage for many years. Rice Museum. Dr. Karl M. Lippert of Columbia has offered his The quality of the programs and tours plus the father's significant collection of West African artifacts friendly spirit at the receptions developed a warm and household goods. reaction among the delegates and guests th_at reflected Numerous individuals have offered interesting the significant progress and gr~wth that IS currently books of historical value. The most important of these, takinq place among South Carolina museums. a six-volume set, was brought to our attention by Mrs. Officers of the Federation for 1974-75 are Gurdon A. F. Hickman of Aiken who is the District Librarian L. Tarbox, President (Director, Brookgreen Garde~s), for that school district. Mrs. Hickman inquired of her Dennis T Lawson Vice President (Director, The R1ce helpers and friends and found that Mrs. Mildred Larkin Museum); Mrs. H~rbert T. Ulmer, Jr., Vic~ Presi~ent owned a set of Schoolcraft's "Indian Tribes of the (Director, Calhoun County Muse~m), Edwm E. R1tts, United States", a set of well illustrated books published Treasurer (Chief Curator, Greenville County Museum in 1851 which would be welcomed in any museum of Art), William L. Anderson, Sec.ret.ary (Assistant to library. Mrs. Larkin, a retired librarian, has given these the Director, S. C. Museum Comm1ss1on). books to the State Museum. In another part of the State, Mrs. Hugh W. Quattle­ A CATAWBA CLAY PIPE baum of Blackville has given her late husband's col­ The Catawba Indian tobacco pipe has been lection of early radios and other communications a traditional part of Catawba culture since pre­ instruments to the State Museum. Mr. and Mrs. Quattle­ historic times. The growing and smoking of baum were owners of the Shamrock Hotel in Blackville, tobacco by American Indian people gave rise to and Mrs. Quattlebaum has also given a variety of hotel the early colonial tobacco trade and subsequently accessories which are expected to be useful at a later to the modern tobacco market. date when the museum's historical rooms and house­ The Catawba people and other Indians of hold furnishings are assembled into exhibits. South Carolina smoked tobacco in fired pottery Through Mrs. Quattlebaum's intervention, Mrs. pipes, often highly decorated and having a reed Leonard Kelly and Mrs. L. J. Connelly, also from Black­ stem. Pipe smokin~ was a part of many of the ville, contributed gifts. Mrs. Kelly provided an unusuai!Y Indian ceremonies but pipes were also smoked large studio camera and other early photographer s for sociability and pleasure. accessories. Mrs. Connelly contributed a number of Today the Catawba pottery pipe is made for navigational instruments, including a sextant and ship's resale as an item of the tribe's cultural arts and compass, which her late father used during his career crafts. The Indians themselves have generally as a ship's captain. adopted the briar pipes and packaged cigarettes THE FEDERATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA MUSEUMS that they can buy in stores. The pottery. pipes, though, may still be smoked on ceremonial oc­ Georgetown County was the site of the Spring casions. meeting of the Federation hosted by Brookgreen Gar­ Catawba Pipe: courtesy of Dr. Robert L. Stephenson , dens and the Rice Museum on the 25th and 26th of Director, Institute of Archeology and Anthropology. DOES YOUR CLUB OR GROUP NEED A SPEAKER? VERTEBRATE FOSSILS OF EDISTO Members of the Museum Commission and the staff John Lane and David Scott, students at Wofford are seeking speaking dates throughout the State as an College, recently completed a project that dealt with opportunity to describe the State Museum concept and the vertebrate fossils found on Edisto Island. They its related programs. These appearances can be ad­ worked under the auspices of Dr. John Harrington of justed to any length program desired, with or without Wofford and Rudy Mancke of the Museum Commission slides. staff. Lane and Scott studied the research collections In addition to personally presenting the proposal at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. C., to for the State Museum to as many people as possible, verify the identifications they had made while collecting the Commission is seeking to determine what South in the field. Carolinians believe would be a meaningful museum During their project period, the collectors found effort that they could support wholeheartedly. the identifiable remains of 28 mammals, 9 reptiles, If you would like to arrange for a talk and discus­ 2 amphibians and 11 fish. Nearly all of the specimens sion about plans for a State Museum for one of your collected were of Pleistocene age. club meetings or a school program, please contact the During the course of this project, numerous collec­ offices of the Commission. We will be pleased to tions of materials from the Edisto area were examined schedule an appearance in your community. and additional information is currently being sought about the location of collections that were not a part THE NEWEST MUSEUM IN SOUTH CAROLINA of the original study. The State Museum office will summarize all available data and carry the Wofford­ The high school band played and the sun shone based project to completion in printed form as a re­ brightly on Friday, April 4th, in St. Matthews where a view of vertebrate life of the past as revealed by fossils beaming audience of citizens watched as Governor found at Edisto. James B. Edwards, Former Governor John C. West, Lane and Scott will Lieutenant Governor W. Brantley Harvey, Jr., Senators contribute their speci­ L. Marion Gressette and Rembert C. Dennis, Repre­ mens to the State Muse­ sentative John G. Felder and Museum Commissioner um's permanent collec­ Guy F. Lipscomb, Jr., all came forward to note and tions when their work honor the newly completed Calhoun County Museum. with them has been com­ With notable assistance from numerous state, pleted. county and local funding and exhibit sources, Museum Director Mrs. Herbert T. Ulmer, Jr. and her staff, Mrs. Joseph Cooper and Mrs. Perry Brandenburg, combined their talents to convert the former Calhoun Pecan Com­ pany building into a 6,000-square-foot museum interior. TAPIR MOLAR Historic artifacts, including costumes, documents, from Edisto arrowheads, silver, paintings, weapons and much more are the basic properties in the museum galleries. The MRS. RICHARD M. JEFFERIES, JR. featured exhibition for the opening is a selection of Emily Jefferies first became involved in museum paintings loaned by th& Columbia Museum of Art. A matters in South Carolina as a member of the Feasi­ loan of artifacts from the S. C. Institute of Archeology bility Study Committee for a State Museum. Subsequent­ and Anthropology occupies a second gallery. ly she was appointed to the South Carolina Museum In accordance with Commission policy, the staff Commission as a Member at Large by then Governor of the State Museum Commission assisted with the John C. West. She served actively on the Commission installation and planning processes for this opening. until her untimely death on April 11, 1975. Mrs. Jefferies was active in garden club circles SEMC, THE SOUTHEASTERN in her home community in Bar'nwell and was a nation­ MUSEUMS CONFERENCE ally accredited Flower Show Judge. She volunteered her services to the Red Cross, Cancer Society Sind Robert Mayo, Director of the Valentine Museum in numerous church and school related activities. Richmond, Virginia, and President of the SEMC, has Mrs. Jefferies was especially keen to see that the appointed William E. Scheele, Director of the South State Museum program would serve the needs of the Carolina Museum Commission, to act as State Repre­ South Carolina public school system. Her warm and sentative for that organization. helpful contributions to the affairs of the South Caro­ The basic purpose of this appointment is threefold: lina Museum Commission will be sorely missed. to assemble information about South Carolina Museums and their activities for publication in the Conference YOUR NEWS ... IN THIS NEWSLETTER Newsletter, to seek contributions for the quarterly publication of the Conference, and to transmit to Con­ It's easy, just contact the Museum Commission ference members those questions, concerns and Office, preferably in writing. Any Museum or Historic attitudes that the museum professionals may feel need House which desires to publicize a portion of its expression. program or events list in this newsletter is encouraged The Southeastern Museums Conference is a re­ to do so. gional conference of the American Association of The staff must have the proposed copy in its Museums. As a representative of the SEMC, Mr. hands no later than the first week in January, April, Scheele will endeavor to unite all regional conferences July and October to be published at the end of each with the AAM. The next annual meeting of the group of those months. If written communication is not pos­ will be held in late autumn in Winston-Salem, North sible please call the Museum Commission Office, Carolina. 758-8197, and give your data to a staff member. MUSEUM HAPPENINGS AROUND THE STATE

BEAUFORT COUNTY HISTORICAL July 9-Aug. 3 The Greenville Museum has received a SOCIETY Photography/Cinegraphics by Beanman, $5,000 grant from NEA Museum Pur­ chase Plan to be matched locally for the Beaufort, South Carolina Clarkson and Smith purpose of acquisition of Contemporary Student Concerts: Pianists American Crafts. This is the second NEA May 8, 9, 10 May 20, 8:00 p.m. Landmark Conference Museum Purchase Plan Grant received Joyce Hurley of Columbia (U.S.C. Music by the Museum. July Department) The Beaufort County Historical Society Staff Changes at the Greenville Museum: May 27, 8:00 p.m. will hold a meeting on the topic of Sharon Whitley - Associate Director of Early American Crafts. (date to be an­ Jane Luther Smith of Sumter (U.S.C. Music Department) the Museum School of Art, John G. nounced) Weatherford - Assistant Director of June 3, 8:00 p.m. Electrographies. Caryl Palmer - Ad­ Jimmy Holloway of Columbia (U.S.C. ministrative Assistant. CALHOUN COUNTY MUSEUM Music Department) St. Matthews, South Carolina Films: (under auspices of the S. C. Arts The Calhoun County Museum continues Commission) GREENWOOD MUSEUM with its Open House atmosphere. The May 23, 8:00 p.m. Greenwood, South Carolina staff is placing its emphasis on youth Deanna Morse: "Marriages" and "De­ and its school program. Greenwood Museum has won a citation jeuner, Mon Amour" (films by Ms. Morse from the South Carolina Travel Bureau and selected Super-B films by young for the third consecutive year for its CHARLESTON MUSEUM South Carolina filmmakers). contribution to tourism. The Greenwood Charleston, South Carolina Science Museum Exhibitions: Museum is expecting a visitor flow of Through Summer Months about 10,000 persons this year. The The Charleston Museum will be reporting Museum is open every day except Satur­ in the next issue of the Newsletter. Energy from the Atom, model with ac­ companying photographs, a featured new day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday display. from 2 to 5 p.m. Admission is free. THE CITADEL The Loggerhead Turtle, a recent acquisi­ Charleston, South Carolina tion. PENDLETON DISTRICT HISTORIC AND The April exhibit was "Jewish Bicen­ Planetarium: RESTORATION SOCIETY tennial Exhibit"; April was proclaimed Public shows: Sat. and Sun., 2:30 p.m. and Pendleton, South Carolina Jewish Heritage Month in Charleston. 4:00p.m. Ilona Rayce Smithkin, impressionist Through June 1 April 26 and 27 painter, exhibited her work at the Citadel "Planetarium Charades", our planetarium The 3rd Blue Ridge Invitational Art Festi­ Gallery and conducted art lessons on on display. val took place on the Clemson House Grounds, Clemson, S. C. campus. June 7-Aug. 31 The Citadel has acquired the following "Once Over Lightly", the sky as seen April 28 through May 1 collections: General Mark W. Clark, from pole to pole. Anderson School District No. 5 Fine Arts Military History of W. W. II and the Week. Musical programs took place at A special Planetarium Show, "The Sky at Westside Gym, art displays were hung Korean War. Night" is given on the first Saturday of L. Mendel Rivers, Former Congressman in the Westside Gym. Art displays were each month to children under six, 1:00 p.m. from Charleston, personal papers. featured at the Anderson Mall each Admiral Frederick Ruge, Former Naval Science Films evening. Advisor to Rommel, collection of manu­ Shown on Saturday 10:30 a.m. and scripts, photographs, and numerous 3:30 p.m.; Sunday, 3:30 and 5:00 p.m. RICE MUSEUM citations. (Titles to be announced). Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, former Chief Georgetown, South Carolina of Naval Operations, plaque collection. General William C. Westmoreland, major FLORENCE MUSEUM Through June 14 collection of Military History. Florence, South Carolina 1st Annual Photographic Exhibition, sponsored by the Georgetown Photo­ May 18-June 22 graphic Society and the Rice Museum. COLUMBIA MUSEUMS OF ART AND Pee Dee Regional Show (Members pre­ A bicentennial event. SCIENCE view on May 16th) May 5 Columbia, South Carolina May 19-30 Bicentennial lecture by Dr. Robert G. Moon Rock Exhibit from Apollo 11. Hartje. "Bicentennial USA: Pathways to Art Museum Exhibitions Celebration", 8:00 p.m. Month of June Through May 7 "Whale Watching", Photographic Exhi­ May "Touchables" (Stone Sculpture) by Jane bition by Dr. William A. Burns. A film and panel discussion "The People B. Armstrong Who Take Up Snakes" (time to be an­ Through May 18 nounced). Juried Spring Annual - Artists Guild of GREENVILLE MUSEUM Rice Museum is currently involved in Columbia Greenville, South Carolina developing waterfront parks around its May 10 two buildings; the staff is very much May 7-11 involved in this project. Ancient and Modern Japanese Prints Artists Blacksmith Association of Ameri­ (Sales Exhibit) ca Conference, Calvin Smith of Green­ May 11-June 4 ville is president. YORK COUNTY NATURE MUSEUM Impressionism of Frederick Frieseke Through May 25 Rock Hill, South Carolina "Festival of Talents" by Richland Art Halsey, Hanna, McDonald, Oplizer and School Ripnitz (five artist show). May 3-26 May 23-24 May 4-31 Childrens Art Show. Print Sales From Ferdinand Roten Alice Ballard Exhibition. May 11 Galleries June 7-July 6 Films, beginning May 11 and continuing May 25-July 6 39th Annual Spring Exhibition, sponsored on the second Sunday of every month, "Pin-Hole" Photography by Willie Ann by the Greenville Artist Guild. 2:30p.m. Wright July 12-26 June 23-July 11 June 8-29 Collector One (a private collection). First Summer Class. Dutch Fork Artists Guild May 14, 15, 16, 19, 20, a print-making July 4 June 8-29 workshop conducted by Jack Perlmutter. Fourth of July Celebration, art show, S. C. Craftsmen The Greenville Museum of Art will have craft fair and other related programs. July 9-27 an Open House on May 31st; art classes July 14-Aug. 1 Paintings by Pauli will start on June 8th. Second Summer Class South Carol ina Museum Commission Bulk Rate 1023 Woodrow St. U.S. Postage Columbia, S.C. 29205 PAID 803/758-8197 Columbia, S.C. Permit No. 1354 ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED

THE SOUTH CAROLINA MUSEUM COMMISSION William E. Scheele, Director NEWS is published quarterly. To receive the William L. Anderson, Assistant to the Director newsletter and other announcements, request to Rudolph E. Mancke, Staff Naturalist be placed on the mailing list. Patricia A. DiFiore, Executive Secretary

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City or Town Zip Telephone Which natural history field(s) interest you? ______Do you record collecting data, notes, locality, records, etc? ______Will you share your information? How? ______Do you maintain a specimen collection? Do you write? Have you a status report or paper that should be printed?

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